Unfortunately, while I was looking forward to seeing Kevin and Tony, Mother Nature had other ideas. You see, up here on the shoulder of Moose Mountain it snowed all day yesterday. With the wind howling and a little wintry mix added in it figured to be quite a challenge driving the eight miles into town. Only later did I learn that down in town the roads were nothing more than wet, and once (if?) I got safely off the mountain the drive would have been easy. Oh well.
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A quick follow on the passing of former football great John Clayton '51. As this story notes, he also was a member of the original Dartmouth rugby team playing standoff, the rugby equivalent of quarterback. (Thanks for the link.)
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This is a very short (1:51) clip with Harvard '69 Tommy Lee Jones that I found on the Harvard website. It's well worth watching for the kicker at the end.
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From the Columbia website:Seniors Sean Brackett, Ryan Murphy and Josh Martin will be working out at Columbia's own Pro Day! Set for April 2, at Noon, the three seniors will do drills and run the 40 in front of NFL scouts at Robert K. Kraft Field.Brackett is a quarterback, Murphy a linebacker and Martin a defensive lineman.
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Did you see that two of the most prominent college teams in the nation now have made scholarship offers to – wait for it – an eighth grader? From the Times-Picayune:University Lab eighth-grader Dylan Moses, who already has a 34-inch vertical jump and runs the 40-yard dash in 4.46 seconds, continues to exceed high expectations.
And he and his family aren't necessarily surprised to receive scholarship offers from some of college football's top programs like Alabama and LSU.The kid is 6-foot-1 and 215 pounds and while his numbers are unbelievable this is yet another example that big-time college sports are out of control.
